MINE-IMPACTED WATER CONFERENCE

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

The Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (SAIMM), in collaboration with the University of the Witwatersrand through the DSI/NRF SARChI chair in Hydrometallurgy and Sustainable Development, and Mintek, will be hosting a hybrid conference on mine-impacted water including acid mine drainage (AMD) in October 2022. With a theme of “impacting the circular economy, closing the water loop”, the conference will run over a period of two days. This second SAIMM AMD themed conference will provide an excellent opportunity for industry, researchers and other global stakeholders to share their knowledge, new processes and technologies that can be used to advance the implementation of sustainable solutions to the challenges associated with mine-impacted water. The conference, with its extensive program, will also offer notable keynote speakers and, the popular student session, all with the purpose of giving a unique view into novel solutions and industry progression on the issue of mine-impacted water.

KEY BENEFITS OF ATTENDING

ECSA AND SACNASP CPD POINTS WILL BE ALLOCATED PER HOUR ATTENDED

• High quality presentations
• Networking and knowledge transfer
• Local and international participation
• Comprehensive insight from stakeholders such as academia, industry and the government
• Hybrid conference; attend from the comfort of your location

CONFERENCE TOPICS

Presentations related, but not limited to the following mine-impacted water related topics are invited:

• Sustainable and innovative mine-impacted water treatment technologies
• Waste to resource: remediation, reuse and resource recovery
• Prediction and mitigation
• Case studies
• Mine closure practices
• Legislation and policy drivers for sustainability
• Novel and emerging strategies for sustainable management of mine-impacted water
• Circular economy concepts, closing the water loop

STUDENTS SESSION

The conference will include a student session where postgraduate students working on mine-impacted water related projects will be given an opportunity to present their research projects. Students are requested to indicate during the submission that their abstract is for the student session. The best student presentation will be offered an award.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

The conference will be of value to:

• Process Engineers and mining consultants
• Research and academic personnel
• Senior and operational managers of mines
• Engineers responsible for mine water management
• Regional and national officials from Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE), Department of
• Water and Sanitation (DWS), Water Research Commission (WRC) and Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) and other related departments
• Companies and individuals offering water related solutions
• Equipment and reagent suppliers to the related industry
• Environmentalists
• NGOs working on water related projects
• Agricultural sector

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS AND PRESENTATIONS

Abstracts should not be more than 400 words.
High quality and impactful presentations will be invited to submit papers for publication in the Journal of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy special edition for Mine- Impacted Water: Impacting the circular economy.

Key dates

• Deadline of submission of abstracts: 6 June 2022
• Notification of acceptance of abstracts: 20 June 2022
• Deadline of submission of papers: 25 July 2022

Contact

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Camielah Jardine
Head of Conferencing
E-mail: camielah@saimm.co.za
Tel: +27 11 834-1273/7

Registration Fees

ONLINE

• Early SAIMM/SAGA/GSSA Member - R 2 250,00
• Early Non SAIMM/SAGA/GSSA Member - R 2 750,00
• SAIMM/SAGA/GSSA/WIMSA Member - R 2 750,00
• Non SAIMM/SAGA/GSSA/WIMSA Member - R 3 000,00
• Author Registration (Non presentation days) - R 2 250,00
• Students and Retired Members - R 350,00
• Per Session - R 500,00

Keynote speakers

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

• Associate Professor: Gavin Mudd, RMIT University
• Professor: Mansour Edraki, The University of Queensland
• Professor: Craig Sheridan, University of the Witwatersarnd
• Panagiotix Xanthopoulos, KU Leuven

Dr Mansour Edraki   

Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland, Associate Professor

Dr Edraki’s is a leading expert in environmental geochemistry applied to mine waste and mine water management. He has a PhD in inorganic geochemistry from University of New England and more than 20 years of experience in leading research projects for the mining industry. He is currently leading the Environmental Geochemistry Group at SMI. Mansour’s research interests are in understanding and predicting the source, transformations and fate of contaminants, particularly acid and metalliferous drainage (AMD), in the mining environment. Through field monitoring, laboratory experiments and modelling his group follow the geochemical pathways of heavy metals, metalloids and salts and investigate the natural processes that may degrade the quality of surface and groundwater and natural soils. Since joining UQ, Mansour has focused on developing innovative techniques for detecting and predicting processes which underpin sustainable management of mine waste and mine impacted water.

Professor Craig Sheridan 

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Claude Leon Foundation Chair in Water Research

I am a chartered, professional chemical engineer with a passion for all things water related. I previously lectured in the chemical engineering stream. I am currently a full professor in the School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand. I conduct research which relates to the processing and treatment of agricultural, industrial and mine effluent streams. I am the Director and Founder of the Centre in Water Research and Development, based at Wits University. CIWaRD exists to support and foster cross-disciplinary water research at Wits.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-sheridan-60436011/

Dr Xanthopoulos Panagiotis

Postdoctoral Researcher, KU Leuven

Panagiotis Xanthopoulos was born in Athens, Greece in 1992 and graduated from the School of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 2015. Within his five year-long studies, he specialized in the field of metallurgical procedures and carried out his Diploma Thesis at the Laboratory of Hydrometallurgy. Right after graduating from NTUA and until October of 2018, he worked as an environmental consultant at ECHMES Ltd. and took part in projects related to the environmental legislation and waste management of raw materials industries in Greece. In 2019, he decided to pursue a PhD in the SOLVOMET groupofKU Leuven under the supervion of prof. dr. Koen Binnemans. His PhD entitled “Recovery of metal ions from dilute aqueous solutions by ion flotation”, was carried out within the HORIZON 2020 MSCA-ETN SULTAN project and successfully finalized in June 2022. Now, he continues as post-doctoral researcher in the same research group, investigating the hydrometallurgical metal extraction and recovery from tailings, low-grade mineral resources, end-of-life products and ores.